Thursday, February 28, 2008

Yes Group IM's are borking

[8:35] Zero Linden: So, welcome to my continuing saga, "Notes from the scafolding of the grid"[8:35] Saijanai Kuhn: ack ack ack ack[8:35] Squirrel Wood: ^^[8:36] Zha Ewry hands Zero another two by foor to hold up the IM system[8:36] Wyn Galbraith: Ruth'd Tree![8:36] Wyn Galbraith: Darn cleared up too fast.[8:36] Zero Linden: As always - Tree is busy recording the session for future history of science majors[8:36] Tree Kyomoon: three crashes in a row[8:36] JayR Cela: Zero how is ther progress with havok 4 & Mono going ?[8:36] Tree Kyomoon: nasty ones[8:36] Neas Bade: or anthropology majors :)[8:37] Zero Linden: I spent some time yesterday debugging the IM problems with Which yesterday[8:37] Rex Cronon: last time i logged out was from SWT(sandbox weapons testing) and because the scripts and physics were off i didn't even realize that i still had my gun attached[8:37] Alyssya Vella: the ones that had me talking in IM with one person and a completely random person seeing and replying in the box also?? lol[8:38] Zero Linden: There are just some astoundingly wild things one can do with a dynamic language runtime like Python[8:38] Saijanai Kuhn: My chat bot ONLY works when that happens...[8:38] Alyssya Vella had to remind herself to do ALL business in voice ;-)[8:38] Zero Linden: Alyssya - we're mostly looking at the one where all of a sudden a group chat process starts using up memory without bound[8:39] Zero Linden: which causes the machine it is on to swap, which then causes everything else on the machine to stop running[8:39] Saijanai Kuhn: Zero, remind which he has my chat bot code, which gives a 1200% repro of the group =? conference chat thing (if/when it works at all)[8:39] Rex Cronon: btw, what is the maximum number of users that a group chat can have?[8:39] Alyssya Vella: ah alright.. well that is an issue also.. although people you dont know suddenly appearing in private IM boxes with one individual completely unrelated is quite worrying also.. but one step at a time i guess ;-)[8:40] Zha Ewry: FOr like, days?[8:41] Zero Linden: Zha - oh no, once the machine goes into swap, we have to kill it and restart the group IM system[8:41] Zha Ewry wonders, just how hard it would be to fully reset that utility cluster[8:41] Zha Ewry: We've seen some giroups wedged for days[8:41] Zero Linden: so it doesn't last for more than a few minutes[8:42] Zero Linden: when the machine goes into heavy swap, pagers go off[8:42] Zero Linden: cell phones ring[8:42] Zha Ewry: AWGroupies, has been hard wedged, Since monday[8:42] Saijanai Kuhn: which means AW Groupies IM is yet ANOTHER issue...[8:42] Zero Linden: klaxons in the monkey house[8:42] Zha Ewry: Nervous looking grid monkeys?[8:42] Rex Cronon: that is quite interesting alyssya. never happened to me, but i have heard about it. imafine is one person say to another person "lets ger married" and a different person gets the IM:)[8:42] Zero Linden: Zha - really? that's odd....[8:42] Zero Linden: Rex - there is no limit[8:42] Zha Ewry: Yeah, I've been on with conciregre pretty much every AM[8:42] Saijanai Kuhn: 3 days now, no Groupies IM, zero[8:42] Zero Linden: there are groups with 1,000s of members